Cinema and machine vision : artificial intelligence, aesthetics and spectatorship / Daniel Chávez Heras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chávez Heras, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Computer vision.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 208 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

'Cinema and Machine Vision' unfolds the aesthetic, epistemic and ideological dimensions of machine-seeing films and television using computers. With its critical-technical approach, this book presents to the reader key new problems that arise as AI becomes integral to visual culture.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I Data-Images: Philosophy of Photography and Technologies of Vision

1. Between Archive and Dataset

2. Inductive Vision

3. Machine Learning and the Philosophy of Photography

Part II Pixels in Motion: The Calculation of Cinematic Time

4. Statistical Distance and Emotional Closeness in Film Style

5. Computational Analysis of Continuity Editing

6. Duration, Motion, and Pixels

Part III AI and Criticism: Aesthetics, Formats, and Interactions

7. Algorithmic Films as Data Analysis

8. Aesthetic Judgements and Meaningful Dissensus

9. AI as Media

Conclusion: Machines Made of Images

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-3995-1473-3